Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Portraits of cans of ashes of 5,000 mental patients' remains


Ken sez, "Last year you ran
a story about the cremated remains of 5000 people found in the closet of an Oregon psychiatric hospital. Turns out photographer David Maisel has been carefully documenting the canisters that hold those people's remains (!), taking individual photographic portraits of each one. Link (Thanks, Ken L!)



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